AQA S3 2006 June — Question 4

Exam BoardAQA
ModuleS3 (Statistics 3)
Year2006
SessionJune
TopicDiscrete Random Variables
TypeLinear combinations of independent variables

4 The table below shows the probability distribution for the number of students, \(R\), attending classes for a particular mathematics module.
\(\boldsymbol { r }\)678
\(\mathbf { P } ( \boldsymbol { R } = \boldsymbol { r } )\)0.10.60.3
  1. Find values for \(\mathrm { E } ( R )\) and \(\operatorname { Var } ( R )\).
  2. The number of students, \(S\), attending classes for a different mathematics module is such that $$\mathrm { E } ( S ) = 10.9 , \quad \operatorname { Var } ( S ) = 1.69 \quad \text { and } \quad \rho _ { R S } = \frac { 2 } { 3 }$$ Find values for the mean and variance of:
    1. \(T = R + S\);
    2. \(\quad D = S - R\).